http://cnylink.com/blogs Award-winning columnist, photographer and news writer Ellen Leahy is back as the editor of the Skaneateles Press, in beautiful Skaneateles New York. She is the former editor of the Skaneateles Press and the Marcellus Observer, and most recently the Syracuse City Eagle. She makes her home in Skaneateles where she is also a freelance photographer and caregiver for her parents, Bill and Marion Leahy. She began her formal writing career as a columnist with one of her hometown papers, The Duxbury Clipper, in Duxbury, MASS. Born in California, she then moved to Sea Girt, NJ. She is a product of small town America - and the late great American Middle Class. The photo at right is the drive down to Brook Farm off of West Lake Road - one of my former Skaneateles haunts. en-us 60 Fri, 08 Oct 2010 11:05:30 -0700 Wondering about Have you ever seen those little Zen gardens made for your coffee table? It’s a small black frame, with white sand in the bottom that comes with a little rake. One is supposed to http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1286561130 http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1286561130 Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:05:54 -0700 Wondering about I’ve never seen the village government act with such lightning speed as with their closure of the Skaneateles Dispatch Center. Now why would this be? Was the village http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1283526354 http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1283526354 Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:46:44 -0700 Wondering about The two women who have collaborated on the Morris’s Grill commemorative note card had never visited the saloon. But that didn’t stop them from appreciating the roadhouse’s http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1282142804 http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1282142804 Fri, 13 Aug 2010 07:31:40 -0700 Wondering about For more than two years I met with a group of writers at a salon (that’s salon, not saloon) on Montgomery Street in downtown Syracuse. It was across the street and down a piece http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1281709900 http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1281709900 Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:36:44 -0700 Wondering about The Worlds Fair in Flushing Meadow gave its visitors a glimpse into the future. How we would be living almost Jetson-like in the 21st century. It was a future that is being http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1280335004 http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1280335004 Sat, 24 Jul 2010 01:09:47 -0700 Wondering about Sometime around the NCAA tournament in Syracuse, I was walking with a friend in St. Mary’s cemetery, when a car pulled in with out-of-state plates. A young woman got out and http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1280002187 http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1280002187 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:07:19 -0700 Wondering about Who says you can’t go home again? That’s one of the interesting characteristics about Skaneateles. One can absolutely come home again. I know; I’ve done it several times. And, http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1279120039 http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1279120039 Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:40:38 -0700 Wondering about Ask any friend of mine and you’ll find that I’m the go-to-girl if someone needs a road trip buddy. Just call, I‘m in. So when Red called to say she had an audition lined http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1277397638 http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1277397638 Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:13:24 -0700 Wondering about My father’s twin married into a Kennedy-esque family who summered on the Jersey Shore. Although, this family’s sibling ratio was the opposite of the famous Cape Codders, as http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1276874004 http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1276874004 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 08:38:56 -0700 Wondering about I spent my grammar school years living in a one-mile square town on the Jersey Shore where my father also grew up. In front of Sea Girt’s Borough Hall there was a World War II http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1275493136 http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1275493136 Wed, 19 May 2010 08:11:50 -0700 Wondering about It has always bemused me when people say, “I don’t like it when people wear things they shouldn’t.” I mean, how does one exactly know what one should or should not turn http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1274281910 http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1274281910 Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:01:11 -0700 Wondering about What kind of soul are you? One day while giving my friend Tracy a lift to pick up her ride, we were discussing various people‘s natures. The theme of “He was an old soul” http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1272481271 http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1272481271 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:52:27 -0700 Wondering about This is really bad. You may want to just stop reading right here. So, after I put the paper to bed last Tuesday, I spent the afternoon running senior citizen errands in http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1271958747 http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1271958747 Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:42:33 -0700 Wondering about I often do what Walt Shepperd says because he is a mentor and I really respect his thinking. At our weekly Syracuse salon on Montgomery Street he said, stop writing about http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1271259753 http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1271259753 Fri, 02 Apr 2010 08:46:16 -0700 Wondering about As a writer I am always looking for a way to quiet my mind. That way I can search for some pure thoughts. When I smoke that quieting happens almost immediately. But as a 21st http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1270223176 http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1270223176 Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:37:13 -0700 Wondering about I once heard Robert Dole speak to the effort his generation completed to supply potable drinking water to every American for free in the form of drinking water fountains. Even http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1269448633 http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1269448633 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:56:48 -0700 Wondering about I’ve stated before that menopause is similar to the closing down of a factory without the loss of all jobs. The period before this is called perimenopause (PM), which can last up http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1268949408 http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1268949408 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:04:02 -0800 Wondering about I never knew what they meant when they said, “It’s political.” But leaving business management and entering the world of communications, where I often follow government, http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1267643042 http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1267643042 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:56:52 -0800 Wondering about Since I wrote this column, I met the creator of Waterfire and need to set the record straight on a couple of items that I was told on the street about the event. First it http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1267041412 http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1267041412 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:05:39 -0800 Wondering about Last Friday a longtime customer of Dominick’s Restaurant was suddenly invited to Shifty’s for a supposed Happy Hour. After spending an exhausting day visiting his accountant and http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1265907939 http://cnylink.com/blogs/eleahy/view_blog.php?blog_id=1265907939